congregation beth israel

Nearly three months after four members were taken hostage during a prayer, a Colleyville synagogue is preparing to reopen.

Nearly three months after four members were taken hostage during a prayer, a Colleyville synagogue is preparing to reopen.

The Colleyville community came together for an interfaith gathering Monday night following the distribution of anti-Semitic and other racist material onto neighborhood lawns.

The celebration comes a month after members of a Colleyville synagogue was held hostage by a gunman and a week after anti-Semitic messages were seen across the city

The man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue sought to buy drugs and a “machine gun” before the standoff last month that ended with the hostages escaping and the gunman’s death, an FBI agent said in court Wednesday.

Security in houses of worship was in the spotlight in Washington, DC with Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker speaking to a joint subcommittee about the hostage ordeal in Colleyville and the need for security funding.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker spoke to lawmakers looking at security at houses of worship about the hostage ordeal in Colleyville and the need for security funding.

Greater Manchester Police in England says two men held for questioning in the investigation into the hostage-taking and standoff at a Colleyville temple have been released from police custody.

A North Texan who admitted to federal investigators that he sold a handgun to the man who earlier this month took four people hostage inside a Colleyville temple before being fatally shot by the FBI is now facing a federal gun charge, the Department of Justice says.

A North Texas man who admitted to federal investigators that he sold a handgun to the man who took four people hostage inside a Colleyville temple earlier this month is now facing a federal gun charge, the Department of Justice says.

Greater Manchester Police in England say Wednesday they are questioning two more people in the investigation into the hostage-taking and standoff at a Colleyville temple.

At synagogues around the U.S., Jewish leaders marked the first Sabbath since last weekend’s hostage-taking at Beth Israel with a show of defiance against it and other acts of antisemitism.

Thursday marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It will be a day to remember and reflect on past and present attacks on the Jewish faith and mark those lives lost.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker is back doing what comes most natural, leading Congregation Beth Israel in a Shabbat service, to mark the weekly sabbath.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker is back doing what comes most natural, leading Congregation Beth Israel in a Shabbat service, to mark the weekly sabbath.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office says Colleyville hostage-taker Malik Akram died from multiple gunshots after an FBI hostage rescue team entered the temple. And NBC 5’s Lili Zheng reports Colleyville and FBI authorities say Akram’s actions were both a hate crime and an act of terrorism.

The Colleyville rabbi held hostage with three members of his congregation Saturday joined members of the FBI and Colleyville Police Department to discuss the attack on Friday afternoon. Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, of Colleyville’s Congregation Beth Israel, joined Matthew DeSarno, SAC of the Dallas FBI, and Michael C. Miller, Colleyville Chief of Police, in a live news conference where they...

The Colleyville rabbi held hostage with three members of his congregation Saturday will speak about the attack Friday afternoon along with members of local law enforcement.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday confirmed the cause of death of Malik Faisal Akram, the British man who held four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville.

The rabbi of a Colleyville congregation at the center of a hostage situation said healing will take “one step at a time” for their members and community.